Game



April 2, 1929. H, SCHAFFER v1,707,3.23

GAME

Filed OCL. l5, 1927 "Patented" Apr'. 2, 1929.

UNiTED STATES HENRY SCHAFFEB, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GAME.

appuuan 111moctober 1a, 1927. serial No'. 225,861.

The invention relates toV games. The object of the invention is toprovide a game ada ted for any number of contestants wh-idli isinteresting as the result of the varied movements of tokens which mayresult from following the directions indicated on the game-board.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter setforth and more par-` ticularly defined by claims at the conclusionhereof.

In the drawin :'The figure is a plan of a ame-board em ying theinvention.

e invention is exemplified as applied to i5l a board A which may beformed of any suitable material and which is marked to indicate asuccession of rectangular stations b.

which are consecutively numbered and which lead to a goal c. Thesestations are adapted to hold tokens or disks'a, one of which is ovided-for each player. The game-,boar is to be used with dice which usuallycontain indicationsfrom 1 to 6 on the faces thereof. Each player makes athrow of the dice, and the number of points on the dice indicates thenumber of stations which -the player shall move his token,so that thedirected movements will be deterl mined by chance. .Besides beingnumbered- 3o consecutively, some of the stations b contain s bolse toindicate the direction in which t e token shall be moved. The arrows orsymbols e, provided in some of the stations,

point backwardl to indicate that theV token` whichreaches t ere, inaccordance withV a throw of the dice, must be moved backwardl a numberof stations correspondin to the total of the indications on the diceOther arrows or symbols, as indicatedat e', o point forwardly to directthat a token reaching there is to be advanced the number of of the dice.n other stations, as indicated at e, buildings are indicated, such as 'aschool hospital, jail, depot or pot-ollce, as symbols indicating that atoken reaching there is to be detained there until another layers tokenis placed in a station containing-the indication of a building,vwhereupon the rst mentioned players token will be released and thesecond players token will be detained on the station containing abuilding until another token reaches such a station. Other stations escontain directions to move the token to selectively marked stations.vFor example, stations Nos. 17, 22, 83 contain a direction to go to froost which requires the player to move his token i backwardly tostation No. 3 which is so designated; station No. 25 contains thedirection to go to the depot designated on station No. 35; station No.45 contains a representation of a match and directions to light candlewhich requires that the token be moved to station 54 where candle isillustrated; station No, 46 indicates a direction to go to thepost-office indicated on station No. 38; station No. 59 contains anillustration of a pipe and a directionl to get a'match found on station84, which requires the player to move his token back to said station;station 64 contains a direction that the token must be moved backwardlyto the asylum illustrated on station 57 station 73 contains a direction.to go to the well which is illustrated on station 33 and requires theplayer to move his token back to said station; 'and station 79 containsa direction to take a bath which r uires the player to move his tokenbackwaifllly to station 69 on which the bathtub is illustrated. Some ofthe stations are without designations, other than their numericaldesignation', and tokens as they reach them are permitted to remainwithout requiring the player to move them forwardly or 'backwardly Thefirst layer whose token reaches the' station 85, when moved inaccordance with the throws of the dice and the directions on the board,is the Iwinner of the game. The game may be playedby any number of plaers, each being provided with a token. a result of the multiplicityofthe directions on the different stations on the board and themovements of the tokens responsively to the indications resultingv fromthe throwsl of the stations correonding to the players throw i dice, thecourses' of the tokens of different players are uncertain and involvedand mayv require unexpected retrogression or advance or to remainconfined in certain stations.

This makes the result so uncertain that players whose tokens areapproaching. theA goal may be set back of the tokens of other players.

The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the details? setforth, since these may be modified within the scope of the appendedclaims, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

,Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new ands'desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

1, A game comprising a board having a series of consecutivelyarrangedstations indicated thereon and vadapted to receive tokens, some of thestations containing symbols requiring the tokens moved thereon to remainsubject to the results of the lay of `another player, and some of thestations being without indications to indicate that the tokens are toremain thereon.

2. game comprising a hoard having a series of consecutively arrangedstations indicated thereon and adapted to receive tokens, some of thestations containing certain Symbols indicating that a token reachingthere is to be detained until another players token reaches a stationhaving the same type of symbol, and some of the statlons being Withoutindications to indicate that the tokens are'to remain thereon.

3. A game comprising a hoard having a series of consecutively numberedstations indicated thereon and adapted to receive tokens, some of thestations thereon containing directions to move a token forwardly, someto move the'token backwardly, some to move the token to specificallyindicated stations and othcrs.containing directions requiring the tokento be retained thereon, subject to the results of the play of anotherplayer, and some of the stations being without indications to indicatethat the tokens are to rcmain thereon.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 19th day a5 of Sept., 1927.

HENRY SCHAFFER.

